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Performance Theories
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Chapter 6 COMS 203 communications Mind Map on Performance Theories, created by Shae Bolding on 05/11/2017.
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Performance Theories
Dramaturgy
The Study of Social Interaction in terms of theatrical performance
Based on Symbolic Interactionism
George Herbert Mead
Key Concepts
Presentation of self
Front stage/ Back stage
Impression Management
potraying yourself to others / create desired impression/ manage
Allows people to behave in socially acceptable ways
AVOID EMBARASSEMENT
Frames
Appropriate behaviour, roles to perform ie: funeral
ERVING GOFFMAN
Observed everyday interactions to learn behaviours in given situations
People=performers: portraying an image to society
CRITIQUE
Lack of clarity: life as a theatrical performance-- metaphor or reality?
Our spontaneous actions-- not impression management
Not supported by empirical reasearch: he observed (not interviews)
How do we know they were acting instead of being authentic
Not coherent: lack of shared theoretical terms.
Performance Ethnography
Role of performance (rituals, ceremonies) to sustain social comunities, to express their values
Studying symbolic behaviours that create/ sustain social groups
How do these activities express cultural values? Identity?
Ethnographic researchers may use performance to communicate findings to audiences
Main Ideas
Researcher conducts field work around a particular site of performance
Views cultural behaviours as "performance"
Researcher uses ethnographic methods to collect data
"translate" subjetcs personal narratives to outsiders through performance
ie: theatrical performance of oral history
Ethnography : A research method
Systematic, long term study of people and cultures to generate a full "portrait" of the group under study
researchers observes society from the point of view of the subject
Field-based: Conducted where the subjects live
Personalized: researchers are in face-to-face contact with subjects on a failt basis
Participant Observer
Inductive
Gather a lot of detail in order to indentify a pattern of behaviour
Dialogic
Study Subjetcs can expand on researcher's findings
Hermeneutic Circle
Distance-experience meaning: translates
Translation
Behaviour observed
Near - Experience Meaning
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